The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-03


Cold.
WEI weather.
BUSINESS good.
RIVER rising slowly.
Two boats leaving today.
The Hudson Is due from Vicksburg.
The Ohio river is rising at Pttsburg.
IfIE James Lee left for FIiars Point with
q fair trip.
THE Chickasaw will arrive Monday from
White river.
Arkansas river is rising at Fort Smith and
Little Rock.
THE Commonwealth is due down on her
way TO New Orleans.
The new steamer Rosa Ice will leave
Paducah early next week for this port.
The Rene Macready, Capt. Joplin, arrived
from Blues Point with 62 bales OF cotton and
jO5 sacks of cotton seed. She leaves again al
10 o'clock today for Walnut Bend.
TnE Kate Adams arrived early yesterday
morning with g95 bales of cotton and 40 bags
of seed cotton. She returned to Arkansas
City yesterday evening with good trip.
TnE Coahoma, from 0sceola, brought us
bales of cotton, SO bags of seed cotton, and
249 sacks of cotton seed, She returned Ia
the upper coast last night with fair trip.
The new light-draught steamer Eugene,
Capt. Ed. Rowland, arrived early yesterday
morning from Arkansas river with $40 bales
of cotton and bags of seed cotton, which
she discharged below the wharf-boat. The
Eugene ~ receiving, and leaves again this
evening for Helena, Terrenc and all way
| points on the Arkansas river. VIII Rowland
| Is chief clerk
THE iron stsamer Charles +, Chouteau, re.
Gently burned at Suniower Landing Miss,
| li5 miles below this city, cost her owners in
| all over 100000 aud at the time of her loss
was insured for only $4,000, policies FOL
$4,000 having been Cancelled by her owners
about ten days before her destruction, owing
10 the high rate of premium, which was II
per cent Somewhere near $4,000 was paid
out during the ten years Of the Chouteau's
career as premiums on insurance. Persons
recently from the wreck report that not 0
yestige OF the woodwork remains, all having
been reduced 10 ashes. The hull will doubt
less be lowed 10 Cairo or st. Louis at an early
day, 10 be rebuilt or otherwise disposed Of.
TnE Texas a Pacific railroad has contract
ed with the Nallctte dry dock company o
Algiers, opposite New orleans, for a new
transfer steamer, 20 be completed in January
The new boat will be a doublc-endcr, 80 fee
long and II feet beam, 80 feet on deck. He
frame will be made of rcdhcart cypress, ant
! the plunklng ana Dcafls ol NclloW pine ntl
floor timbers will measure lIXl4 inches. thu
kclson 2Sxli and the knucklc clamps lINl4
She will have six boilers ~ inches In diane
ter aud - feet long, with - ilues. Her cyl
inders will be 20 inches in diameter and
feet stroke. She will be able 10 track an,
handle fourteen of the largest freight cars
The new steamer is Ia bc built under tn
direct supervision Of Capt +. G. Montgomery
PlTrsBuRG Times: "The statement that th,
present suspension Of Ohio river navigation
from drought is without parallel il errone
Gus. Not To go further back, in 1863 the nayi
CATION Of the Ohio closed for want Of waite
about the 10th OF May, and did not RESUME
until the following December ~ Cincin
natl was then as she is now, IN the perils o
a coal famine. The navigation was extreme
ly hazardous from running ice, the rive
breaking up from sudden rise Of the water
Of the Monongahela and Allegheny. The Goa
men were in quandary about going GU
with their coal boats, a considerable numbc
being in readiness, hut they determined .
Ia take the risks, and between 100000 AM
1000 OoD bushels Of coal were started for Gin
cinnati, where the news OF the departur
was received with great rejoicing. The perio
Of that suspension was fully seven month";
The present one has been less than liv
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